A Celebration of the Radio Listening Hobby

Interesting Links and Books

The Internet is filled with useful, informative, and fascinating sites which can greatly enhance our enjoyment of this hobby. The links I have included here are those which I have found to be of benefit to my pursuit of radio, or they are instructional/resource sites which reflect my small attempt to give something back to the hobby. I will attempt to categorize the links for ease of navigation. This will necessitate some overlap, but I will try to keep this repetition to a minimum. As this is the Internet, links come and go, so I apologize in advance if a link is dead – I will do my best to weed those out as I can!

— ARRL Antenna Book – same as above, but focused on all things antennas

— Radio Communications Handbook (RSGB) – the British equivalent of ARRL Handbook, again older editions are quite good

— ARRL Hints and Kinks (8 Collections so far) – these are short topics with suggestions and problem-solving ideas (get ‘em used!)

— Antenna Classics series from ARRL – culled from articles in QST over the years, such as wire antennas, Yagis, verticals, etc.

— ARRL Operating Manual – good for exploring the world of amateur radio

— The Worldwide Listening Guide by John Figliozzi – absolutely excellent SWL reference with not just stations, but program guides

— Building Successful HF Antennas – Peter Dodd RSGB; considered an expert and has been writing a column for their publication for years

— Antennas Mastered – Peter Dodd

— The New Shortwave Propagation Handbook – George Jacobs, et al. – excellent book on propagation for HF; shouldn’t overlook books on shortwave radio since our HF bands are in the same parts of the spectrum

–Art of Electronics – great practical resource for understanding circuit design from a not-so-technical standpoint

— Rider’s Perpetual Troubleshooters Manuals – these and many other older public domain books may be found online for download at such places as: